alt Hacker NewsHeadline: hopes you weren't paying attention
Body: The change had been telegraphed: AWS's pricing page noted (and bizarrely, still does) that "current prices are scheduled to be updated in January, 2026," though the company neglected to mention which direction.
These do not seem entirely consistent?
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> This comes about seven months after AWS trumpeted "up to 45% price reductions" for GPU instances - though that announcement covered On-Demand and Savings Plans rather than Capacity Blocks. Funny how that works.
Assuming I found the right pricing page(s), this new increased price is still lower than those other prices that were lowered.
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> These do not seem entirely consistent?
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The didn’t say what update mean, higher or lower and who watches the price page if you are already paying customer?